Monday, April 12, 2010

Odds and ends

CNN reports on the construction of replacement housing for hurricane victims in Pinar del Rio, with building materials manufactured on the spot.

Herald: A 25-year-old diplomat defected from the passport section of the Cuban consulate in Mexico City and has come to the United States with her husband, according to her uncle in Canada.

AP: A concert at the “tribuna anti-imperialista” on the Malecon next to the U.S. diplomatic mission drew a small crowd yesterday.Singer Silvio Rodriguez read a statement, and didn’t sing.

Remember the report that travelers to Cuba would be required to buy travelers’ health insurance policies?Cubaencuentro reports that the cost will be three convertible pesos per couple per day.

Cuban Colada takes note of a report in Spanish-language media that six Chilean companies wrote their government to point out that the problem of Cuba freezing the bank accounts of foreign companies operating there “has virtually been solved.”